The public's (lack of) tolerance of pollution also impacted things. It's not like PCB manufacturing is clean.
PCB manufacturing isn't that bad, semiconductor fab is very nasty. It was nasty an unmitigated way during the birth of silicon valley, check out a superfund site map if you're bored.
https://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?layers=c1229e...
PCB manufacturing isn't that bad, semiconductor fab is very nasty. It was nasty an unmitigated way during the birth of silicon valley, check out a superfund site map if you're bored.
https://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?layers=c1229e...